1 week Ago By Just Jared
Brenda Song is opening up about being a child actor. Before her big break as a young teen in Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody , the now 36-year-old actress had minor roles in TV shows including ER , Popular , and The Bernie Mac Show and also appeared in movies like Santa With Muscles , Blade , and Like Mike . While promoting her new movie The Last Showgirl at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival , Brenda joked that since she still loves acting there “something must be wrong with me,” before saying that she “learned not to take anything personally at a young age.
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“Because the thing is, at the end of the day, this is just a job,” Brenda told Variety . “As with anyone at any job, everyone feels disposable. I think it’s just harder to take on because sometimes it’s like, ‘No, you just don’t look right.
You’re not tall enough.’ And to not take that personally at a young age, I think is the difficult thing.” “Because you don’t understand that, you don’t understand this” Brenda added.
“It’s a testament to my parents, who–this was just an after-school activity until I became an adult.” She explained, “And that certainly got me through and it really was just like me doing a play at school..
.It didn’t become a career choice until my mom got breast cancer for the first time and I booked The Suite Life and also got into college, and I had to sort of chose which sort of direction I want to take, because it could no longer be an after school activity.” Late last year, Brenda ‘s fiancé Macaulay Culkin shared some rare insight into their relationship .
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